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On All Things Considered this week Roy Jenkins guests include a former DJ and rapper; a Harley-Davidson-riding preacher; an Anglican bishop; and an impresario who is planning to go big time into…puppets.

They are together because this is Pentecost, the festival Christians regard as the birthday of the Church.   The Bible describes how the first followers of Jesus were filled with the Holy Spirit, and every member of the multinational crowd gathered in Jerusalem ‘heard them speaking in their own language’.

On All Things Considered we have one central question: to what extent are the Christian churches today speaking a language which people can understand?  If they’re not, why not? and what needs to change?    

To explore these issues Roy Jenkins is joined by:

Dai Hankey, the one-time rapper who now leads the Hill City Church in his native Pontypool.

Sally Humble Jackson, the driving force behind Christmas The Story, which has spread from Cardiff city centre to a string of towns across South Wales.

Sean Stillman, who founded Zac’s Place in Swansea, described as ‘a church for ragamuffins, a place of glorious chaos and complicated beauty’

And  Bishop Andy John who joins us from our studio in his Bangor diocese.